Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
[text ID: When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused. end ID]
To you I belong, however time may
wear me away.Rainer Maria Rilke, “You, You Only, Exist”
Ritual Is Journey, Chris Abani
[ Text ID: As you lay dying, I asked, What is your biggest regret? / Every kindness withheld, you said. / Every flicker of pleasure denied, you said. / Look, you said, sunlight. ]
people really have no idea how much the little things mean to me. thank you for smiling to me thank you for inviting me thank you thank you for borrowing me your lighter thank you for eating with me thank you for checking in with me thank you for hugging me thank you for complementing me thank you for listening thank you for being here i will not stop thinking about it i will love life again
“You can’t be a lurker on tumblr.” Yes, you absolutely can. I’ve been quietly reblogging things since 2014 and I haven’t interacted with anyone in years.
Overthinkers are the hardest type of people to disappoint; they already expect you to.
Nah, we’re just disappointed that we were right.
oh, isn’t that one of the loveliest things ever?
—Dev and Charlie, from The Charm Offensive
I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn’t exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It’s beautiful and doomed.
- Viv Albertine